New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of the twenty years Sweet spent at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital, the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (GodÕs hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. "Victoria Sweet writes beautifully about the enormous richness of life at Laguna Honda, the chronic care hospital where she has spent the last twenty years, and the intense sense of place and community that binds patients and staff there. Such community in the medical world is vanishingly rare now, and Laguna Honda may be the last of its kind... God's Hotel is a most important book which raises fundamental questions about the nature of medicine in our time. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the 'business' of healthcare Ð and especially those interested in the humanity of healthcare." (Oliver Sacks, M.D.) SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488436.